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Giving Back Part 2 | How to Give It Away
How to Give Away Your Gold
Yesterday I introduced the challenge of starting Mists of Pandaria with no gold.
You could selfishly fill your pockets with vanity items like I did.
Or you could give the gold back to the community, the players.
Who…

Giving Back Part 1 | Why Start from Zero?
Start with Zero Gold
Why start with No Gold?
One idea for a brand new expansion is to start with zero gold.
After crushing it in The Burning Crusade and Wrath of the Lich King, I challenged myself to start from near zero in Cataclysm.
To…

What's Your Gold Making Secret?
WoWinsider asked what is your gold making secret at their Breakfast Topic on 8th July.
I wrote a quick n dirty response on a notepad and posted it up.
All these tips are timeless, and will last you forever.
Know your buyers:
What…

Ultimate Undercutting Guide
Undercutting on the World of Warcraft Auction House - Your Ultimate Guide
When you undercut you get less money for a quicker financial return.
In this guide you'll discover:
Who is undercutting and for how much and why
Types of undercuts
How…

What's Hot and What's Not | WoWuction Tool
WoW uction
Found a sweet tool for ideas of items to stock up.
Go to www.wowuction.com
Choose your Warcraft Server Realm
Click Global
See a list of the hottest climbing items in AH
Thank you WoWmarketeer for pointing this tool out…

World of Warcraft - My Gold Snapshot
Gold in Inventory and Auction House
Inspired by a real-id chat with blog reader Graeme, I wanted to take a snapshot of exactly where I am with gold-making.
I'll use the opportunity to compare my liquid gold-in-hand currency to the value…

World of Warcraft Duping Hack Destroys Investments Value
Duping Hack destroys World of Warcraft Gold value
My home server has seen a sudden surge in Queen's Garnet and Crimson Deathcharger items, allegedly due to duping hacks by clever, but malicious, profiteers. The Consortium forum at Stormspire…

Fangs of the Father Rush - Profiting from Rogue Rollers
Fangs of the Father
MMO-Champion reports Imbos of Exorsus (RU-H) completed World First Fangs of the Father by getting both legendary daggers. Congratulations to your rogue!
Players have been rolling new rogue characters and brushing off…

My Gold Gaming Buddy Part 2 of 2
Moving to a new World of Warcraft Server
Yesterday I told you about my culture shock moving from being the gold godfather queen of a small server to a nobody on a huge server realm. Just when I thought I would be ok, earning good solid gold…

Raid Finder Patch 4.3 Tool
Patch 4.3 Raid Finder introduces a new opportunity for casual players and semi-hardcore alts to experience end game content.
Blizzard have decided to gate access to end-tier gear. You can't buy tier 13 with valor points. You have to raid…

Frostweave Cloth
Frostweave Cloth for 4.3
With the attention of gold bloggers, and patch watchers 100% focused on the release of patch 4.3 I'm going to employ a "While the Cat's Away, The Mice Will Play" strategy and look backwards but not too far backwards…

Can you Visualise More Gold?
Can you magically create gold?
What if this really did work in World of Warcraft?

Battered Hilt Solo Farming
Battered Hilt was a big seller quest-starter item towards the end of World of Warcraft Wrath of the Lich King expansion. It started a quest line which gave an epic ilevel 251 weapon as completion reward.
The Undermine Journal lists current…

Make It Last - the Thrill of the Tease
Winning the Game
When you've played enough computer games, you know that if you sit and sweat over a game, any game, be it WoW, Angry Birds or Donkey Kong, whatever; if you work it like a job will find the weak spot. Just squeeze and *POP*…

Satchel of Exotic Mysteries
[If you already know everything about the satchel of exotic mysteries, or don't want to hear my opinions, skip this post. Â Satchel of Exotic Mysteries post is inspired by today's Just My Two Copper post on Argent Tournament pets by Mageshadow.]
Remember…

CJ's Gold Making Problem - Time
CJ posted a comment on my blog about his (her?) problems with making gold:
I must say that my biggest problem with goldmaking thus far has been my complete inability to post and sell during prime raid times on my server. I play on a large,…

Make 'em laugh
Advertisements that sell
This post is about barking, i.e. advertising in trade (and OCCASIONAL yells) and includes some screenshots of my silly adverts, and tells you about Cold's Mysterious Fortune Card guide, a guide that can teach you how…

Membership of The Gold Queen
Free Membership
A short reminder that The Gold Queen website includes a free membership, open to World of Warcraft players who are interested in becoming part of our community of gold makers.
Belong to an Elite Gold-making Club
Gain access…

The Bitter Disappointment of Gold Cap
What will you do once you reach the gold cap? How would you spend it?
part of the JMTC Blog Carnival
Hey guys, ever really really been attracted to a gorgeous girl (or guy) and flirted your heart out, and been slightly disappointed when…

Do Peons Dream of Explosive Sheep?
Work Work.
Gold making can seem like work at the time, and I admit that it seems doubly so when you are not just making gold on the auction house but writing about it, implementing new designs about it, dealing with spam, replying to emails…